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  1. Reinstalling Grub on 2010.1 [solved]

    in Software

    Posted

    Hello,

     

    I managed to reinstall Grub, thank you! I used the install disk and went to the system repair section. In there there is an option to reinstall Grub, I used it and it failed because there where 2 hard disks installed and Linux was on the second one. So I unplugged the first hard disk (the one containing Windows) and repeated the procedure and it worked like a charm!

     

    Thanks!

  2. Reinstalling Grub on 2010.1 [solved]

    in Software

    Posted

    Thank you for the prompt reply!

     

    One more question, I have a live CD of 2010.0 (not 2010.1 !), do you think I can use that one, boot in live mode and enter the grub command from there hence avoiding the need to do all the mount stuff? Once I am back in my installationhen I would reinstall grub from 2010.1 .

     

    Thank you!

  5. x11-driver-video-nvidia71.xx and 2009.1 [solved]

    in Hardware

    Posted · Edited by bamboccio

    Apologies but I am not sure here why there is the need of a kernel, I was thinking I needed only the driver, ie aa package called

    x11-driver-video-nvidia71xx and this is not there.

     

    This is what I see in the current version of the driver...

    This NVIDIA driver should be used with GeForce 6 and later cards, including the associated Quadro cards. For older cards, the packages x11-driver-video-nvidia96xx and x11-driver-video-nvidia71xx should be used instead...

     

    Confused :(

  12. 2008 Spring one install went wrong

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    I experienced a similar problem with the fglrx driver on my notebook, but since I don't need 3D there I just used the vesa-driver.

    Ah, OK so maybe it was because I used the proprietary ATI driver... Anyway my aunt now is happy with her new Linux install and is already using her digital camera so I will leave it her for a bit :)

     

    Thanks!

  13. 2008 Spring one install went wrong

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted · Edited by bamboccio

    I don't think the exit button can be at fault. Apart from bad luck, I don't see what could have caused your problem…

     

    I will not try it on my aunt PC again but on 2 out of 2 occasions Mandriva (X11 as you pointed out) crashed when I did close session (close session, not stop or restart the PC). As you said maybe it was just bad luck, we can leave this one to the futures generations :)

     

    Many thanks for your help, brilliant as usual!

  15. 2008 Spring one install went wrong

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    I have deleted the xorg.config file and created a new one. Now Mandriva starts OK with the CRT monitor too but the text, windows and icons look huge. I am using the same resolution as Win XP does with the the same monitor so it's not a resolution setting problem.

    I am really not sure what it can be :( Any ideas?

     

    Thanks!

  16. 2008 Spring one install went wrong

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    Wow, you were right, it's a monitor config problem. The monitor she has it's an old CRT one. I still have not configured it but I tried with another flat screen monitor and it worked. I now need to find out how to configure the CRT. When I change the monitor settings and do test it goes black so I cannot even see how to leave the test :wall: Any pointers?

     

    Thank you!!!!

  17. 2008 Spring one install went wrong

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    I did a fresh install of One 2008 Spring on my aunt's PC. The live booted up OK, Mandriva started and the live install went OK. So I did setup a few users, a bit of KDE config and then went to do terminate session and the user interface disappeared (it seemed to crash) and no more prompt, nothing! I then restarted and half way the booting process it stopped with no messages or command prompt just a black screen. I tried the safe mode and it booted on the command line but when I type xinit then a flash on the screen and it all becomes black. I tought it may be the APCI problem so I added nolapic noapic apci=off on the command line of GRUB but nothing...

    I then tried to reboot from the live disk but again no joy :( Anyone any ideas? My aunt is very depressed and so I am :(

     

    Thanks!

  18. 2 disks dual boot

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    Fixed adding this lines to the Windows entry:

    map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)

     

    I suppose this is a bug in 2008.1 as I never did to manually edit that. Note that also before 2008.1 bootdrake was automatically recognizing thw windows disk and adding the entry automatically. With 2008.1 I had to add it manually...

  19. 2 disks dual boot

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    I have to HD, the first one with XP and the second with Mandriva. Since 10 I use Grub on the second hard Disk to dual boot with joy but since the ugrade from 2008.0 to 2008.1 Linux still boots fine but Win XP fails with the error:

    Fylesystem type unknwon 
partition type 0x7 root(hd1,0)
chainloader +1

     

    My configuration is below (the boot devices in bios are 1: Disabled 2:CDRom 3: HD1)

     

    more /boot/grub/device.map
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/hdb
(hd1) /dev/hda

     

    more /boot/grub/menu.lst
timeout 10
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/gfxmenu
default 3

title linux
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=2e65ecfa-017d-4ef2-be2b-
565e51004141 noapic nolapic splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img

title linux-nonfb
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=UUID=2e65ecfa-017d-4ef2
-be2b-565e51004141 noapic nolapic
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img

title failsafe
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=UUID=2e65ecfa-017d-4ef2-be
2b-565e51004141 failsafe
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img

title windows
root (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

     

    more /etc/fstab
# Entry for /dev/hdb1 :
UUID=2e65ecfa-017d-4ef2-be2b-565e51004141 / ext3 defaults 1 1
# Entry for /dev/hdb6 :
UUID=a0e03146-2f84-11d9-9539-bd101a5d4ac3 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/hdb7 :
UUID=e74e38d5-70ce-4e14-ba68-4ef35e63dc52 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
# Entry for /dev/hdb5 :
UUID=5006b93e-275b-4b73-9b51-9105788e800a swap swap defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/hda1 :
UUID=646C81856C8152AA /media/hd ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/hda5 :
UUID=D0303539303527BC /media/hd2 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/hda6 :
UUID=1A9C3C089C3BDD47 /media/hd3 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

     

    Anyone any ideas?

     

    Thanks!

  23. 2007.1 Xorg Update failed [solved]

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    Thanks to everyone! I actually yes have an NVIDIA card and when I did the update I was asked to select a kernel source and I chose one but I did not update the kernel. 

    uname  --kernel-release
2.6.17-13mdvlegacy

    Anyway I did XFdrake and now everything works! So I chill out a bit and then upgrade to 2008 :)

     

    Many thanks!!!

  25. rpm for k9copy

    in Software

    Posted

    :thumbs:

    Looks like for some reason the mandrivausers.org version of the easy-urpmi has lost its plf-free. I'm sure it used to be there but when I was answering your question I realised it had gone. It's still there at easyurpmi.zarb.org though, must just be a sync problem. :)

    Yes indeed I found it on easyurpmi.zarb.org and probably before I was using the other one.

    Thanks again!

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